Government Arrogance
It’s a joke I know, but you can insert the IRS, TSA, ATF, EPA, or any other federal agency into the joke and it would read the same.
Thug Tactics
Not surprising but what I would call treasonable. Impeachment proceedings can’t start soon enough.
A few snip-its from here:
But the most important IRS story came not from the hearings but from Mike Huckabee‘s program on Fox News Channel. He interviewed and told the story of Catherine Engelbrecht—a nice woman, a citizen, an American. She and her husband live in Richmond, Texas. They have a small manufacturing business. In the past few years she became interested in public policy and founded two groups, King Street Patriots and True the Vote.
In July 2010 she sent applications to the IRS for tax-exempt status. What followed was not the harassment, intrusiveness and delay we’re now used to hearing of. The U.S. government came down on her with full force.
All this because she requested tax-exempt status for a local conservative group and for one that registers voters and tries to get dead people off the rolls. Her attorney, Cleta Mitchell, who provided the timeline above, told me: “These people, they are just regular Americans. They try to get dead people off the voter rolls, you would think that they are serial killers.”
Out of control government, this has to stop, revolution soon?
Obviously
Yep, That’s About Right
Never Been To Chicago….
….but not surprising.
John Kass has been reporting on the Chicago political machine for many years and has been familiar with the tactics employed by the Machine to destroy those who cross it.
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — certainly makes for meaty partisan politics. But this scandal is about more than partisanship. It’s bigger than whether the Republicans win or the Democrats lose.
It’s even bigger than President Barack Obama. Yes, bigger than Obama. It is opening American eyes to the fundamental relationship between free people and those who govern them. This one is about the Republic and whether we can keep it. And it started me thinking of years ago, of my father and my uncle in Chicago and how government muscle really works.
Kass’s father and uncle owned a small supermarket on the south side of the city. His immigrant family was a diverse lot, politically speaking, and every Sunday they would gather to talk about and debate politics. Kass once asked the assembled group of small businessmen and tradesmen why they didn’t get involved in politics? The response he eventually got describes the real power of government to intimidate and destroy: “Are you in your good senses?” said my father. “We have lives here. We have businesses. If we get involved in politics, they will ruin us.” And no one, not the Roosevelt Democrats or the Reagan Republicans, disagreed. The socialists, the communists, the royalists, everyone nodded their heads.
This was Chicago. And for a business owner to get involved meant one thing: It would cost you money and somebody from government could destroy you.
The health inspectors would come, and the revenue department, the building inspectors, the fire inspectors, on and on. The city code books aren’t thick because politicians like to write new laws and regulations. The codes are thick because when government swings them at a citizen, they hurt. And who swings the codes and regulations at those who’d open their mouths? A government worker. That government worker owes his or her job to the political boss. And that boss has a boss. The worker doesn’t have to be told. The worker wants a promotion. If an irritant rises, it is erased. The hack gets a promotion. This is government.
So everybody kept their mouths shut, and Chicago was hailed by national political reporters as the city that works.
I didn’t understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old bosses. Now there are new bosses. And shopkeepers still keep their mouths shut. Tavern owners still keep their mouths shut.
Even billionaires keep their mouths shut.
One hard-working billionaire whose children own the Chicago Cubs dared to open his mouth. Joe Ricketts considered funding a political group critical of Obama before last year’s campaign. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff, made it clear that if the Cubs wanted City Hall’s approval to refurbish decrepit Wrigley Field, Ricketts better back off.
It happened. He backed off. It was sickening. But it was and is Chicago. And now — with the IRS used as political muscle and the Obama administration keeping that secret until after the president was elected — America understands it too.
R.I. Dem Ass Hat Sheldon Apologizes
I watched his comments, he tried to politicize this tragic event. When will we start kicking these bastards out for shear stupidity? Watch the video as he blames the Oklahoma tornado for costing Rhode Island and other states billions. I don’t know how these people sleep at night.
Clueless!!
IRS Head To Plead The Fifth
This after she appeared four times last year stating all is well.
So what is the difference this time? If she said everything was peachy last year, now we find out she lied, wasn’t she under oath those four times? Is it because she got caught? Is it because she does not want to commit perjury by covering for POTUS? Something stinks.
WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
A Nod To Zip over at Weasel Zippers for the image and story – Read more here:
This Is How Liberal Bureaucrats Work-The Fort Hood Lie
As we all know the shootings at Fort Hood by a muslim terrorist was listed as “work place violence”, the rest of the story should make your blood boil.
The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that left 13 dead 32 injured. The Army said under the Military Code of Justice, Hasan’s salary cannot be suspended unless he is proven guilty.
So a terrorist gets paid while these people suffer. This is insane.
Meanwhile, more than three years later soldiers wounded in the mass shooting are fighting to receive the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat.
Retired Army Spc. Logan Burnett, a reservist who, in 2009, was soon to be deployed to Iraq, was shot three times when a gunman opened fire inside the Army Deployment Center. “I honestly thought I was going to die in that building,” said Burnett. “Just blood everywhere and then the thought of — that’s my blood everywhere.” Burnett nearly died. He’s had more than a dozen surgeries since the shooting, and says post-traumatic stress still keeps him up at night.
Burnett is now fighting a new battle; only this one is against the U.S. Army. The Army has not classified the wounds of the Ft. Hood victims as “combat related” and declines to label the shooting a “terrorist attack”,The “combat related” designation is an important one, for without it Burnett and other shooting victims are not given combat-related pay, they are not eligible for Purple Heart retirement or medical benefits given to other soldiers wounded either at war or during the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon. As a result, Burnett, his wife Torey, and the families of other Fort Hood victims miss out on thousands of dollars of potential benefits and pay every year.
To Burnett the shooting felt like combat. “You take three rounds and lose five good friends and watch seven other people get killed in front of you. Do you have another term that we can classify that as?” asked Burnett.
The Army has categorized the shooting as a case of “workplace violence.”
“Sickens me. Absolutely sickens me. Workplace violence? I don’t even know if I have the words to say,” said Burnett. “They don’t need to be treated like this. They don’t need to sit and fight every day for this benefit or that,” said Torey Burnett.
Like I said, disgusting. Read the entire story here:
A Simple Conclusion
Excellent
